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Emerging Human–Carnivore Conflict Following Large Carnivore Reintroductions Highlights the Need to Lift Baselines 大型食肉动物重新引入后出现的人类-食肉动物冲突凸显了提高基线的必要性

IF 0.9 4区环境科学与生态学

African Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2021-10-27 DOI: 10.3957/056.051.0136

Natalia M. Banasiak, M. Hayward, G. Kerley

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引用次数: 4

Assessing the Performance of Oribi Antelope Populations at Multiple Scales: The Limitations of Citizen-Led Oribi Conservation 在多尺度上评估欧比羚羊种群的表现:公民主导的欧比羚羊保护的局限性

IF 0.9 4区环境科学与生态学

African Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI: 10.3957/056.051.0127

T. Patel, Keenan Stears, I. Little, Adrian M. Shrader

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引用次数: 1

Ten Years on: Have Large Carnivore Reintroductions to the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, Worked? 十年过去了:大型食肉动物重新引入南非东开普省成功了吗?

IF 0.9 4区环境科学与生态学

African Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2021-09-24 DOI: 10.3957/056.051.0111

Natalia M. Banasiak, M. Hayward, G. Kerley

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引用次数: 5

Conflict Over Wildlife Conservation in the Mbire District, Northern Zimbabwe 津巴布韦北部Mbire地区野生动物保护的冲突

IF 0.9 4区环境科学与生态学

African Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2019-11-14 DOI: 10.3957/056.049.0137

Vincent Jani, A. D. Wit, N. Webb

引用次数: 4

Common Eland (Tragelaphus oryx) Population Trends in the Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg Park and Surrounds, South Africa, between 1942 and 2018 1942年至2018年南非尤哈兰巴-德拉肯斯堡公园及其周边地区的公共土地(大羚羊)人口趋势

IF 0.9 4区环境科学与生态学

African Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2019-10-29 DOI: 10.3957/056.049.0121

T. Patel, T. O’Connor, F. Parrini, S. Krüger

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引用次数: 1

A Novel Technique for Artificial Pack Formation in African Wild Dogs Using Odour Familiarity 一种利用气味熟悉度的非洲野狗人工组队新技术

IF 0.9 4区环境科学与生态学

African Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2019-10-28 DOI: 10.3957/056.049.0116

C. Marneweck, A. Marchal, David G. Marneweck, Grant Beverley, H. Davies-Mostert, D. Parker

引用次数: 4

Using Camera Traps to Generate a Species Inventory for Medium-Sized and Large Mammals in South West Zimbabwe 使用相机陷阱生成津巴布韦西南部中型和大型哺乳动物的物种清单

IF 0.9 4区环境科学与生态学

African Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2019-09-03 DOI: 10.3957/056.049.0089

Rebecca J. Welch, Tanith Grant, D. Parker

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引用次数: 3

Insights into the Genetic Population Structure of Black-Backed Jackal and Caracal in South Africa 南非黑背豺和野猫遗传种群结构的研究

IF 0.9 4区环境科学与生态学

African Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2019-06-14 DOI: 10.3957/056.049.0084

L. Tensen, M. Drouilly, B. J. Vuuren

引用次数: 5

Carcass Composition and Yields of Wild Fallow Deer (Dama dama) in South Africa 南非野生小鹿(Dama Dama)的胴体组成和产量

IF 0.9 4区环境科学与生态学

African Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.3957/056.049.0100

Leon Brett Fitzhenry, D. Cawthorn, V. Muchenje, D. Bureš, R. Kotrba, L. Hoffman

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引用次数: 4

Phasing Out of the Printed Version of the African Journal of Wildlife Research 逐步淘汰印刷版的《非洲野生动物研究杂志》

IF 0.9 4区环境科学与生态学

African Journal of Wildlife Research Pub Date : 2018-10-01 DOI: 10.3957/056.048.021001

引用次数: 0